The program is based on three objectives:

1. Increase the number of students who elect to enter Family Practice in either a rural, suburban, or urban underserved area
2. Provide exposure to, and experience of, family medicine as it is practiced in these selected settings
3. Decrease the time and debt load needed to produce a quality family physician, by awarding the D.O. degree following a three-year curriculum

Other objectives include:

• Recruit high-performing, dedicated members from within each first year class of the College of Osteopathic Medicine medical students.
• Support students with intensive year-round focus on family medicine as a specialty.
• Provide and continually update courses in family medicine and community responsibility as core elements of the preparation for a specialty in primary care training.
• Publicize financial aid and financial planning resources to both students and parents through information sessions and financial aid workshops.
• Provide students with community based clerkship rotations in underserved areas.
• Increase the number and quality of the College of Osteopathic Medicine applicants through partnerships with pre-medical programs within regional institutions of higher education.
• Introduce a series of longitudinal curricula in which students have the opportunity to experience "real world" ongoing contact with medical practice and patients over extended periods of time.
•  Link family medicine residencies, including problem-based learning, longitudinal courses, and increased levels of one-on-one instruction.
   

	"You’ll be with the patients, preferably for their entire life, and be able to see them grow up, take care of them and then eventually their children." -Joel Attard Second year medical student Accelerated D.O./Family Medicine Continuum
	"The curriculum has a family medicine focus. When you’re part of family medicine—the helping community—you’re part of the community and you have a leadership role." -Miles Hang Second year medical student Accelerated D.O./Family Medicine